People / Barry Stow

Since 1982 Barry Stow’s work has included historic building repair, the conservation of listed buildings, urban landscapes and World Heritage Sites, tourism development of heritage sites, housing and shelter strategies...

News / Staple Inn – the ultimate jetted facade – High Holborn, London

MBA have completed an extensive repairs and maintenance project to grade I Listed Staple Inn in High Holborn, London. This ultimate jetted facade and its courtyards behind incorporate many previous...

Project / Chapel, Oriel College

Grade I Listed Oriel Chapel, consecrated in 1642, is part of First Quad, a group of collegiate buildings from 1620-1642 which survive in substantially their original form. The whole quad...

News / Chelsea Arts Club, London

MBA have been appointed to develop a conservation-led master plan for the Chelsea Arts Club. The Club, founded by artists for artists in 1891, occupies listed buildings and a charming...

News / Oriel College Choir Stalls, Oxford

A delicious project for an architect singer, to design acoustically transparent, visually quiet music stands in a grade I listed College Chapel. This is the latest in a series of...

News / Royal Holloway, University of London – Founder’s railings in place

...the period 1869-1886, the only one outside Oxford or Cambridge. Designed by W. H. Crossland, the central coutryards of the college are grade I listed. A new railing by MBA...

Project / 60 Parker Street, Holborn

...the building was listed Grade II during the planning process. An alternative approach was developed: to restore the four floors of accommodation within the main body of the building as...

Project / Porter’s Lodge, Oriel College

Renewal of Grade I Listed gateway and porter’s lodge dating from 1620-22. Oriel College wished to improve the quality of the first experience of the college, and form a C21...

Project / Staple Inn – High Holborn

...in 1944. Adjacent to the west and included within the estate, a terracotta-clad Waterhouse office building from the 1880s. The buildings are listed variously grade I, II* and II.  ...

News / Conservation at Christ Church, Clapham

Work is nearing completion on restoration and conservation work at Christ Church, Clapham, London. New learning centre MBA have delivered a new learning centre at the Grade 2 listed Christ...